Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[ky]

Lens flares are indeed one of the most beautiful special effects, provided they're not overused to distraction.

Those aren't lens flares, those are the headlights.

 

[Michael_Chr]

IMS images - Aurora

 

[perseus]

Sunset of tomorrow (Nautil)

 

[Scav]

Dear Commander Sisko: Is it hubris, or simply practicality?

 

[N_Molson]

EDIT: I've just remembered what a friend of mine said once: We float at the Moon because there's no atmosphere there :rofl:

Funny, I made the same exact confusion when I was a child, building a wrong relationship between atmosphere density and gravity. Then I saw some experiment on a TV show that involved putting an object into a small transparent vacuum chamber. I was disappointed not to see the object floating, and from there I knew I was wrong somewhere.

 

[malisle]

Funny, I made the same exact confusion when I was a child, building a wrong relationship between atmosphere density and gravity. Then I saw some experiment on a TV show that involved putting an object into a small transparent vacuum chamber. I was disappointed not to see the object floating, and from there I knew I was wrong somewhere.

I had similar misconceptions as a child - I once saw people floating in zero G in a diving aeroplane in some documentary and was very confused since they didn't have any breathing apparatus. They were having fun instead of suffocating :huh:

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Wasn't fast enough to get a snapshot at MaxQ.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

I finally got started into my greatly-delayed AMSO experience by flying Apollo 4. I managed to catch this snapshot right after SIVB sep in D3D9:



I seemed to have things lined up just fine right until the reentry phase. According to the wiki article on the mission, the final periapsis was 120 km, but I completely missed reentering. Should that have been -120 km?

 

[DaveS]

Discovery on the Launch Mount at Space Launch Complex-6 (SLC-6) at Vandenberg AFB:

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Started on Apollo 8 last night



The clock is running!!!



Don't know about the rest of you, but the scene in Apollo 13 where they seal the hatch always gives me shivers. Nice shot here from the Apollo 8 CM center seat









Go for staging



Tower Jett



Bill Anders, lookin cool





Experienced some pogo oscillations after inboard shutdown about this time



SIVB staging!





And that is how we do that





Now to learn IMFD, since I never found TransX less than satisfactory up until now. Oh the complexity! :lol:

 

[MJR]

Discovery on the Launch Mount at Space Launch Complex-6 (SLC-6) at Vandenberg AFB:

Lovely. I cannot wait for the Launch Pad to come out. I remember it back in 2008 or 09 and it was awesome.

 

[Izack]

It's not remarkable just from the picture, but it's my first textured model, made and UV-mapped in Blender.

HAIL PROBE

 

[Kendo]

It IS remarkable, because it,s your first textured model, made and UV-mapped in Blender. Well done.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

So I somewhat/sorta/almost figured out IMFD, and got my TLI burn all set up for Apollo 8.

Mike Collins called up a bit before the burn and informed us that we were go for TLI. The astronauts were very excited about that, as you can see


Okay... Forget it.

Anyways, oddly enough the burn came over a full minute late when compared with the ATC, but otherwise seemed fine. Not sure exactly why the Apollo 8 AMSO package was that far off on the GET, but oh well...



Ignition!



And burnout, a short while later



Good Separation from the SIVB



Swinging around for a look at the booster



And lining up with the booster to practice maneuvers for holding station (a real part of the Apollo 8 flightplan)



Backed off soon after to a relatively safe distance



And away goes the SIVB on its voyage into solar orbit



About 9-10 hours GET, a long way from home

 

[Yurik]

My experiments with new rocket HCLV

1. Time to start
2. On parking orbit
3. Ignition main engine to full propellant out in rocket stage
4. Separation CTV and go to safe distance
5. Separation LTV and dock with CTV
6. Trans-lunar burn complete
7. heading to moon
8. Lunar orbit insertion

 

[Yurik]

....
9. Rocket body on apogee
10. Astronauts go through airlock from CTV to LTV (2 mmu)
11. PROBA sat release
12. undocking confirm
13. perigee point decrease over the landing site
14. descending
15. few seconds to contact with the ground
16. Landed, astronauts out of vessel

 

[Yurik]

....
17. ready for ascending to orbit
18. orbit insertion
19. go for docking
20. astronauts back to "service module"
21. undocking empty LTV
22. lowing perigee to -3 km
23. leaving lunar orbit
24. heading to Earth

 

[Yurik]

....
25. reentry capsule separation
26. safe splash down about 1830 km from launch site

Thats all for now

 

[MaverickSawyer]

I'm also looking to increase my level of Experience with Orbiter 2010 from Beginner to something a little higher. Mad Scientist perhaps?

Maxim #19: Being a Mad Scientist means never stopping to ask, "What's the WORST thing that could happen?"

Courtesy of Schlock Mercenary.

 

[Dantassii]

Lunar Station under construction with an Arrow next to it

I added an Arrow Freighter to my Lunar Station Construction Scenario and flew it from Earth Orbit to the Lunar Station's orbit around the moon then got it close enough to get a screen capture just after local sunrise. I'm getting really good at matching orbits and docking in the dark. I'm definitely going to need that extension for the docking ports to clear the fins on the Arrow Freighter.

The station is being built using the IMS R2.3 modules and this is the un-integrated version of the station, so no solar arrays or radiators are deployed in this photo. There are roughly 450 separate modules in the station at this point in its construction after 81 XR5 flights from Brighton Beach. I am still estimating initial refuel/repair/construction capacity (IRRCC) after mission 100 although I may have another 30-40 missions before I get all the fuel tanks brought up for the 1 side of the station.

And for those of you who are wondering, When I took this screen capture, I was getting 18 FPS on my video card, although before the sun came up I was getting around 35 FPS.